About six-in-ten Americans say legalization of same-sex marriage is good for society
37% of Americans have a negative view of the impact of same-sex marriage being legal, with 19% saying it is very bad for society.
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37% of Americans have a negative view of the impact of same-sex marriage being legal, with 19% saying it is very bad for society.
Six-in-ten Republicans say they feel warmly toward Donald Trump, an October survey found. This is down modestly since last summer (67%).
As Election Day approaches, hereโs a look at votersโ issue priorities, based mainly on a Pew Research Center survey conducted Oct. 10-16.
There has been a sharp decline in the share of Republican voters who are โvery confidentโ that votes cast at polling places will be counted accurately.
Joe Bidenโs job rating is fairly comparable to Ronald Reaganโs (42%) and Bill Clintonโs (41%) at this stage of their presidencies.
The economy is clearly the top issue for voters; fully 79% say it will be very important to their voting decisions โ the highest share among 18 issues included on the survey. The public continues to take a dim view of current economic conditions. Just 17% of U.S. adults say the economy is in excellent or good shape, little changed from the 13% who said this in July.
Americans express less concern than in the spring about Ukraine being defeated by Russia and about the war expanding into other countries.
Americans see capitalism as giving people more opportunity and more freedom than socialism, while they see socialism as more likely to meet peopleโs basic needs, though these perceptions differ significantly by party. Many Democrats say socialism meets peopleโs basic needs; Republicans say it restricts individual freedoms.
There are sizable ideological differences over the most pressing priorities for the U.S. immigration system within each partisan coalition.
Americansโ ratings of the Supreme Court are now as negative as โ and more politically polarized than โ at any point in more than three decades of polling. And nearly two-thirds of Democrats (64%) now say the Supreme Court has too much power, almost three times the share who said this in August 2020 (23%).
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